Writing Women’s Lives: Women’s Personal Narrative

Course Description

Explore the richness of memoir and writing that captures the utter complexities and stark simplicities of your life and strengthens your own writing process. Through memoir, autobiography, storytelling and personal narrative, you will be guided into personal writing, deep listening, sharing and, most importantly, writing for yourself. You will explore guiding principles, experiment with varying approaches, rediscover memories, deepen connections with your authentic self and create intention in writing from and about your life and other women’s lives too.

Topics:

Experiment with creative approaches to writing from and about women’s lives

Understand the connections between self-intimacy and writing authentically

Create a nurturing, supportive environment with other women

Learning Outcomes:

Practice the valuable skills of careful listening, receptivity and witnessing as well as valuing the process of personal sharing

Deepen connections between developing self-intimacy and creating clearer intention and clarity in writing about your life

Recognize the importance of being part of an engaged learning environment and creating community with other women

Feel more empowered, confident and engaged in your own writing process

Facilitator:

Wendy Judith Cutler, teacher, writer, feminist, has taught writing and women’s studies in colleges and universities for over twenty-five years. She has currently been teaching and facilitating women’s memoir and journal writing workshops and circles on her home in Salt Spring Island. She is co-authoring a book on women’s journal writing and writing her own memoir. Writing is vital to her life and she relishes the opportunity to inspire others to honour the power and wisdom of your own words.